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Welcome

Welcome to this brief course in the history of public health. I am an assistant professor in the History of Public Health at the Institute of the History of Medicine. My research interests are in the history of public health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, historical epidemiology and demography, and disease surveillance and risk. Our main theme in this course will be tracing the hazards to human health that people have faced in various times and places throughout history. We will also trace the process of the professionalization of public health, especially in the last one hundred years.

Because of its brevity, the course will inevitably raise more questions than it answers. If, in your future work, our discussions as well as the references I have included can be helpful, then the course will have achieved its main purpose.

- Dr. Graham Mooney


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Course Information
Course Number
Term
Units
550.605.81
Third
2
Course Type: Single Term
Faculty: Mooney
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